Chris CUOMO takes apart the wingnut freak who is the source for DRUMPF's "illegals voting"
Video inside the link.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-who-championed-claims-of-widespread-voter-fraud-gets-brutally-embarrassed-on-cnn/
[font size=5]Man Who Championed Claims of Widespread Voter Fraud Gets Brutally Embarrassed on CNN[/font]
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Re-posting: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028534705
font size: [font size=5]Here are the TeaBagger freaks DRUMPF believes woo about "illegals voting"[/font]
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/25/he-claimed-there-were-3-million-illegal-voters-now-he-says-he-may-name-them.html
[font size=5]He Claimed There Were 3 Million ‘Illegal Voters.’ Now He Says He May Name Them.[/font]
That’s the same number Trump himself has used to try and explain away his huge popular vote defeat—but Gregg Phillips said it first, with no public evidence.
Ben Collins Olivia Nuzzi 01.25.17 12:15 AM ET
.... Phillips claims his group, a band of volunteers loosely affiliated with a right-wing organization called True the Vote, has “184 million voting records we’ve collected over time.” ....
In the meantime, though, he’s mostly gone dark. He’s yet to post on Twitter this year, he said, after finding himself the subject of accusations he’s responsible for crimes he said were actually committed by another person with his name—a somewhat ironic development. He also deleted his Facebook account. ....
Phillips said the data set his group is working with came from True the Vote, a conservative vote-monitoring group that splintered off from the Tea Party’s King Street Patriots. Both King Street Patriots and True the Vote were founded by Texas Republican organizer Catherine Engelbrecht. ....
King Street Patriots has been successfully sued by the Texas Democratic Party for voter intimidation, and True The Vote was the subject of a 2012 congressional investigation for voter suppression. Engelbrecht later filed an ethics complaint against Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings for his handling of the investigation.
Phillips estimated True the Vote has 100,000 volunteers, and said it encourages splinter groups like the one creating the supposed illegal immigrant database. He said the side project doesn’t have a name. ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_the_Vote
[font size=5]True the Vote[/font]
True the Vote (TTV) is a conservative[2][3] vote-monitoring organization based in Houston, Texas whose stated objective is stopping voter fraud. The organization supports voter ID laws[4] and trains volunteers to be election monitors and to spot and bring attention to suspicious voter registrations that its volunteers believe delegitimize voter eligibility. The organization's tag line is "If you see something at the polls that just doesn't seem right, record it."[5] True the Vote's current president is Catherine Engelbrecht.
Americans for Prosperity and other Republican-leaning independent groups have sponsored meetings featuring speakers from the group, including Engelbrecht.[6] The liberal Internet outlet Talking Points Memo has criticized True the Vote for engaging in what it says is caging, voter intimidation, and advancing statements about the pervasiveness of voter fraud that it says are unfounded.[7][8] In 2012, Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings opened an investigation into the organization.[9] In May 2013, following the IRS targeting controversy, Engelbrecht stated True the Vote was subject to additional scrutiny in applying for tax-exempt status. ...
On December 13, 2011, it held a rally in Austin, Texas to support a stricter ID law passed earlier that year.[33] The organization held a national summit in Houston largely centered on charges of voter fraud. Speakers included ACORN whistle-blower Anita Moncrief, Hans Von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, who insisted that "United States has a long history of voter fraud that has been documented by historians and journalists," and President Jimmy Carter's pollster and Fox News contributor Pat Caddell, who called opposition to voter ID Laws "the demise of our democracy" and "Slow motion suicide.” ....
In January 2015, True the Vote Founder Catherine Engelbrecht was called before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the confirmation hearing for Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch, where she questioned whether the proposed change in leadership would affect the larger Justice Department: "Attorney General Eric Holder has created a radical, racialist agency that metes out social justice on an as-needed basis to promote the advancement of a progressive agenda. Will Ms. Lynch follow in his footsteps or, will she turn in a new direction?"
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